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LexisNexis® Antitrust Legal News
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Divided 9th Circuit: Supermarkets Profit-Sharing Agreement Violates Sherman Act
SAN FRANCISCO - The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 17 ruled 2-1 that an agreement by four supermarket chains in Southern California to share profits during a strike is not immunized from antitrust review by the nonstatutory labor exemption and violates Section 1 of the Sherman Act...
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Federal Judge: Antitrust Claims Against Title Insurers Are Barred
WILMINGTON, Del. - The McCarran-Ferguson Act bars the Sherman Act claim of purchasers of title insurance who alleged that title insurers that were members of a licensed rating board and the rating board unlawfully conspired to fix title insurance rates, a federal judge in Delaware ruled July 29 in dismissing...
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Insurance Purchasers Seek High Court Review Of Filed Rate Doctrine Ruling
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Purchasers of title insurance in New York filed a petition on July 6 seeking review by the U.S. Supreme Court of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that the purchasers' price-fixing claims against title insurance companies are barred by the filed rate doctrine (Brendan Dolan,...
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5th Circuit Rejects NPMs' Appeal Of MSA Challenge Dismissal, Finds No Violations
NEW ORLEANS - The Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) and one of its implementing statutes in Louisiana do not violate constitutional, antitrust or other federal law, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held Aug. 10 in upholding summary judgment in favor of the state against a pair of tobacco...
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3rd Circuit Affirms Dismissal Of Claims Against Insurers, Brokers
PHILADELPHIA - The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 16 affirmed the dismissal of most of the antitrust claims of insurance purchasers who alleged that numerous insurance brokers and insurers participated in broker-centered and global conspiracies involving undisclosed contingent commission agreements and bid rigging (In Re Insurance Brokerage...
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